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"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." -Cicero

At the time, neither Cuba nor Russia acknowledged or explained the presence of the spy ship in Havana.

According
to media reports, the Leonov made additional trips to the island nation
30 miles from Florida in March and earlier this month.

Officials
with the U.S. Department of Defense suspect that since March, the
Leonov and the Chiker have been part of an intelligence-gathering
operation targeting the U.S. nuclear missile submarine base in Kings
Bay, Georgia, as well as other key military installations on the East
Coast,The Washington Free Beacon reported.

Just like old times: Tourists in a old American
car pass by Russian Vishnya class warship CCB-175 Viktor Leonov, docked,
on February 26, 2014, at Havana harbor

Mystery: A Soviet-made Lada limousine passes by
the Leonov, whose presence in Havana back in February was never
acknowledged by Russia

The pair of Russian vessels also have been detected in the vicinity of the U.S. Naval Station in Mayport, Florida.

According to a recent article in the Russian-language Armenian news outlet Iratvakan.com, the ocean-going tug Nikolay Chiker was also sighted earlier this month near the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral.

The
sightings coincided with a large-scale Russian nuclear exercise
involving 10,000 troops and 1,000 pieces of equipment, which took place
between April 17 and April 19.

The
appearance of the Leonov and the Chiker in such close proximity to
American shores comes at a time when tensions between the U.S. and
Russia are extremely high due to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.